Tag: life & news
Will the true voice on climate change please stand up?
By Toby Miller, Cardiff University
Who should political leaders follow when it comes to climate change: environmental scientists, powerful corporations, or a million marchers? Sometimes...
First goal of UN sustainability targets should be to not conflict...
By Lucien Georgeson, University College London and Mark Maslin, University College London
The UN’s proposed sustainability targets are riddled with conflicts that could make them...
Could crowd-sourced policing turn us into vigilantes – or bedroom super...
By David S. Wall, Durham University
An increasingly popular weekend pastime among fans of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse and others, are murder mystery...
New iPads, no surprises: Apple may struggle in competitive tablet market
By Barry Avery, Kingston University
Compared to the Apple keynote that launched the iPhone 6/6+ and Apple Watch, the follow up iPad event was always...
Who owns the moon?
By Saskia Vermeylen, Lancaster University
Whether you’re into mining, energy or tourism, there are lots of reasons to explore space. Some “pioneers” even believe humanity’s...
Karma may have a role to play in career progression, but...
By Dulini Fernando, University of Warwick and Laurie Cohen, University of Nottingham
For those who might have missed it, this was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s...
Bugs as treatment: coming to a clinic near you…
By Paul Bertrand, RMIT University and Anna Walduck, RMIT University
When you’re sick, you want the most effective treatment to help get you back on...
From galactic pile-ups, stars are born: a crash course in clusters
By Nick Seymour, Curtin University
Clusters of galaxies have back-stories worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster: their existences are marked by violence, death and birth, arising...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
